FC7 clock applet start-of-week question

taharka res00vl8 at alltel.net
Wed Aug 22 02:33:40 UTC 2007


How do,

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 19:22 -0400, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 13:52 -0700, David Boles wrote: 
> > on 8/21/2007 11:49 AM, Kam Leo wrote:
> > > On 8/21/07, David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> on 8/21/2007 9:30 AM, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> > >>> I'm running gnome, and the only three "clock preferences" are "show
> > >>> seconds," "show data," and "use UTC."  There must be some way to do
> > >>> this.....
> > >> The day of the week that the calendar displays is determined by your
> > >> locale setting. If your locale setting is correct and you still want, I
> > >> assume that you do  ;-)  , your week to start with Sunday then go here.
> > >>
> > >> http://tinyurl.com/yr7ups
> > >> http://norman.walsh.name/2006/01/26/weekstart
> > >>
> > >> This user is using Ubuntu but the same applies to GNOME in Fedora.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >>  David
> > > 
> > > There is a control to change locale, currency, first day of week, and
> > > date in KDE. I cannot find such a control/applet in Gnome. Where is
> > > it? Does Gnome use language, e.g. English (USA), as the key for
> > > determining how to display numbers, dates, currency, etc.?
> > 
> > 
> > Yes. GNOME uses the locale or at least it used to. I had this problem
> > quite a while ago and I fixed mine like this. That problem now no longer
> > exists for me. I do not know of any control other than selecting the
> > proper locale or editing the file as it says in the link. I also do not
> > recall having to change as much
> > 
> > This line in my en_US (Fedora 8) is not like his example either. Mine reads:
> > 
> > 7;19671130;7
> > 
> > And my calendar starts with Sunday.
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> I have several Fedora 7 systems, all have the "week" value
> in /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_US of
>         week    7;19971130;7
> and one has the left-most calendar column as Saturday and another has
> the left-most column as Sunday.  I'd think that if this controlled the
> applet display then everyone who installed Fedora 7 and selected the
> "EN_US" locale would display the same calendar format.

That setting can be changed if you use Evolution as that applet is tied
into it. Evolution>Calendars>Edit>preferences will get you at those
settings ;-)
> 
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taharka

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